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...Have It Now." The strikers spread themselves along a sloping embankment, with revolvers, rifles and shotguns before them, and flung challenges at the plant 300 yards away. "Let the yellow scabs out!" "If we're gonna have war, let's have it now!" But the night shift stayed inside where it was safe. The skirmish line of strikers settled down to wait them...
...rowing hands it was a repetition of the confusion that often prevailed at Poughkeepsie. The ripping current dragged the marker buoys and finish line out of position. The observation train (a revenue producer that helped to spur the shift to Marietta) broke down. The course had to be shortened to two miles. Finally the abbreviated races got under way two hours late. Washington won the first race for freshmen; its junior varsity won the second...
...equaled in Western painting. Rouault trowels on his colors like hot coals, achieving the richness and emotional impact of Gothic stained glass-which also shuts nature out. Braque, who is more interested in form than color, leads the eye on surprising new adventures by painting shapes that seem to shift and change as one looks at them. The results may sometimes shock; they can also feed the imagination with the fire of new experience...
...Wood and Managing Editor B. 0. McAnney, he'waved vaguely: "Well, so long." Then Easton, who is chairman of the W-T & S Guild unit, walked out, followed by ten other Guildsmen on the slim lobster shift. By the time they left the building, a picket line of 150 was already forming. Easton picked up a sign and joined the line. The strike was the Guild's first against a New York City newspaper since the Brooklyn Eagle strike...
...preceded last week's elections to the upper chamber of the Diet, the House of Councilors. At stake in the elections were the seats of 125 Councilors whose terms ended this year, as well as seven more seats which had fallen vacant through death or resignation. A major shift in the distribution of these 132 seats could change significantly the complexion of the 250-man House...